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After Much Advocacy, House Subcommittee Calls for 3.1% Pay Bump for Feds in 2020

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

(National Federation of Federal Employees)

On Monday, the
draft fiscal 2020 Financial Services and
General Government appropriations bill was
advanced by members of a House subcommittee.
The bill calls for an average 3.1% pay
raise for federal civilian employees in 2020.
If passed, the bill would block President
Trump’s proposal to freeze federal
employees’ pay next
year.

This House subcommittee action
represents a significant procedural win for the
National Federation of Federal Employees
(NFFE), the Machinists Union (IAM), and other
federal employee advocates, who have worked
tirelessly to make sure Congress bucks
President Trump’s short-sighted request to
freeze federal workers’ pay in
2020.

Just last
month, hundreds of NFFE-IAM and IAM members
stormed Capitol Hill to fight for a fair pay
increase for federal employees in 2020.
Hundreds of visits with Congressional offices
were made during the 2019 IAM Legislative
Conference held in Washington, D.C. May 6-8,
2019, and clearly, the advocacy of this
union’s members made a
difference.

“This is
a clear win for federal employees. We still
have a long way to go to get a 3.1 percent pay
adjustment for federal workers in 2020, but
this is a good way to get this fight
started.” said NFFE National President Randy
Erwin in response to the House subcommittee
action. “Here is the bottom line: federal
workers make 31 percent less than private
sector workers in similar jobs. That needs to
change, and finally lawmakers are beginning to
understand that. Congratulations to all the
members of this union who helped secure this
successful
vote.”

The next
steps in the process is for the appropriations
bill to advance in the full House
Appropriations Committee and then ultimately
reach the House floor. The Senate has not yet
published its own draft of this spending
bill.